Europe's antitrust chief dismissed accusations of anti-U.S. bias over her decision to go after Google for abusing its Internet search dominance and Apple over an Irish tax deal, saying such talk was a fallacy. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager's robust defense of her actions came after she was criticized in the U.S. media for a spate of cases opened over the past year against U.S. giants such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Starbucks.
T-Mobile says as many as 15 million people may have been affected by the data breach, an attack that didn't compromise T-Mobile's own systems but rather those of its credit partner — the data vendor and credit bureau Experian. To be clear, the hack hurts even non-subscribers to T-Mobile — credit applicants who for whatever reason ultimately went with another service.
Facebook privacy hoaxes just won't die. It seems like every few months, some extended family member or high school "friend" will post a big block of legalese-style text, urging others to share it in their own feeds with a promise that it will somehow protect their privacy.
If you're planning to look up Usher, Luke Bryan or producer Armin van Buuren on the Web, take heed. Intel Security announced that the musicians top its ninth annual list of the most dangerous celebrities online. Searches for those famous names are most likely to land users on websites that carry viruses or malware.
A ruling due next week from the EU's top court on a long-running transatlantic pact on private data could affect all legal ways of moving such data from Europe to the United States, lawyers say, potentially disrupting the everyday online transactions of thousands of companies. Under current European privacy laws companies are forbidden from transferring European citizens' personal data to countries deemed to have lower privacy standards - such as the United States.
Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to end their long-running patent feud over smartphones and video game systems, dropping about 20 lawsuits in the U.S. and Germany. The two companies, which didn’t disclose financial terms, have been litigating over technology innovations for five years.
Just days after China and the United States hailed a high-level agreement limiting cyberattacks, a former commander of one of the Chinese military’s top hacking units lashed out at American Internet policy, in a sign of how far apart Beijing and Washington remain on technology issues. In prepared remarks, Hao Yeli, the former deputy head of the Fourth Department of the People’s Liberation Army General Staff Department — which is responsible for the Chinese military’s offensive electronic warfare — said the United States had double standards with online surveillance and that the uncertainty behind the origin of digital attacks makes it difficult to apply traditional rules of engagement to the Internet.
The U.S. military needs to improve its ability to deter attacks on its computer networks, and is working to make them more costly for U.S. adversaries, top U.S. military and intelligence officials told a Senate hearing. James Clapper, director of national intelligence, told the committee that cyber threats to the U.S. national and economic security were increasing in frequency, scale, sophistication and severity of impact, both by countries such as Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as well as non-state actors.
Apple has launched a new privacy policy website to explain in exacting detail how it users customers' data. The updated site is intended to list virtually every core use of data by services like Apple Pay and iCloud, and to explain how it works with governments when it receives requests for digital information about users.
If you've ever left a negative review of a company online, you might be pleased to hear that federal regulators have your back. In a lawsuit, the Federal Trade Commission accused a Florida-based firm not only of selling weight-loss supplements that didn't work as advertised, but also of improperly going after customers who complained about the faulty products online.
Leaders of the Judiciary committees in Congress are questioning whether the Obama administration's decision to give up oversight of parts of the Internet address system is unconstitutional. The GOP lawmakers asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to explore whether the handoff is allowed to take place without Congress’s approval.
At long last, Microsoft is trying to set the record straight on the information that Windows 10 collects about you. In a blog post, Windows chief Terry Myerson acknowledged that Windows 10 is collecting personal information about its customers to enable some of its best features, including the Cortana virtual assistant.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel confronted Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg on how his company is progressing in efforts to curtail racist posts, after her government complained the social network wasn’t doing enough to crack down on recent xenophobic outbursts. Attending a luncheon on the sidelines of a United Nations development summit in New York, Merkel and Zuckerberg were overheard on a live transmission broadcast on the UN website as participants took their seats.
The United States criticized an EU judicial opinion that called into question the Safe Harbour transatlantic data privacy system and Washington urged European judges to reach a different conclusion. The U.S. mission to the European Union said an opinion by an adviser to the EU's top court, backing an Austrian who alleged Facebook passed private data to U.S. security services, "rests on numerous inaccurate assertions about intelligence practices of the United States."
Hilton Worldwide Holdings said it was investigating claims that hackers had compromised registers in gift shops and restaurants at a large number of Hilton Hotel and franchise properties across the United States. Cyber-security blogger Brian Krebs said in a post that Visa Inc. had sent confidential alerts to financial organizations warning of a breach at a business between April 21 and July 27.
President Barack Obama said that the United States and China had agreed not to conduct cybertheft of trade secrets and intellectual property against one another for commercial gain. The administration has steadily put pressure on the Chinese government over the last several years to repudiate the use of cybertheft of trade secrets -- something the U.S. business community and administration has accused Beijing of engaging in on an industrial scale.
The United Nations is calling on both the public and private sector to do more to stem the tide of violence against women online. A report released by the United Nations Broadband Commission called violence against women online a "problem of pandemic proportion."
Responding to a chorus of criticism, Indian officials hastily withdrew a draft policy on encryption that would have required users of social media and messaging applications to save plain-text versions of their messages for 90 days so that they could be shared with the police. The proposal, which many condemned as both draconian and impractical, came as an embarrassment days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to Silicon Valley to try to attract investment and promote India as an emerging market for digital technology.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission can’t force two former credit-card company employees accused of insider trading to give up the personal passcodes for their old work-issued smartphones. The case highlights the thorny legal questions raised by a common corporate practice: Many American workers have one password-protected phone that they use for work and personal activities.
Google Inc. is back under U.S. antitrust scrutiny as officials ask whether the tech giant stifled competitors’ access to its Android mobile-operating system, said two people familiar with the matter. The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement with the Justice Department to spearhead an investigation of Google’s Android business, the people said.
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